Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

There’s something I feel very strongly about; it’s a very sensitive topic to me and perhaps the other 50,000+ affiliates of this University (plus or minus a few loners who aren’t football fans). Yes, I have to speak about this because it’s been eating me up the past few days.

Right after the football game ended and the people I watched it with transformed into sailors whose tongues had no restraint, I was thinking “can’t do anything about it now, game’s over, it’s all good.” But no, that wasn’t the same opinion of the people who lived on my floor and certainly wasn’t the sentiments expressed by the many students I passed on the way to class, in the dining hall, at the information booth at the marshall center, my professor and the other 149 students in the class… the list goes on and on!

I recognize that there are a lot of bandwagon jumpers who supported the bulls’ cinderella story before Thurday’s game. It’s all very good and well that they helped to fill up the stadium but I have to agree with my professor who said “this is the time when the team needs us the most.”

Sure they needed us when we made Ray James so loud that West Virginia couldn’t convert and had to settle for a field goal when they were 4th and goal in our territory. What now? Here is when it becomes clear who the true Bulls Fans are.

Stick with your team and not just when the going is good. We get enough doubt from the other coaches who called us a fluke, and the commentators who called Matt Grothe a “poor man’s Tebow.” They didn’t just take a shot a Grothe, they’re talking smack about USF as a whole.

It’s hard to stay on top. In my view, the games get harder trying to hold a spot rather than making the ascent. Let’s help our fellow Bulls and remind ourselves which team we’re playing for.

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